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"So that’s the kind of mass chaos that I encountered initially, and then I was told that every time there’s a bomb, give it about 15 minutes and the mass casualties come."

They had an instant coffee machine on campus which poured first concentrate then hot water. I learned to pull out the cup before the water started, pay for another, & swap the empty cup for my half filled cup of concentrate. That's how i got through college.

And a day goes by.

"lex talionis"

unhoused harrowing · here deposited
a flake · flogging the flower war
our unwearying words · secondhand witness
& we snipe at each other · too snugly urned
though we can drive & drug · drizzlethrough
no comfort comes · caring too much
& not enough

"Immanentize the Eschaton" in Claude 3's output--or is it? Who can say?